Bug#271686: exim4-daemon-heavy: Add command force-stop to /etc/init.d/exim4

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 271686-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:23:19 +0100


tags #271686 confirmed
thanks

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:14:34AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> How about "killall exim4"? (If I was in a similar situation I probabbly
> would not find or even search for "force-stop" in the init-script but
> would gor killall, or pgrep immideately)

I would have used kill $(pidof exim4) as killall does have significant
different semantics on other platforms.

I think, however, that a force-stop option in the init script doesn't
hurt and would like to suggest implementing it.

Greetings
Marc

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